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Committee and john rogers. thank you foyer being here today. michael, if i can start with you. republicans have tried to brand this the schumer shut down and now a schumer surrender. how do you see it? >> we reject. that most democrats blame the republicans for the shut down. president trump being silent through the process. this goes back to december 5th when he made the decision to rescind daca, itself. there have been changes from the original paper work on friday. its a shorter cr, chip fund...

>> senator schumer claims this deal today was much different from last week. how did the ball move forward f it did at all from friday night and this morning. >> look i think democrats realized that the position they had taken frankly was in defensible. they had to focus on, first, funding our military, protecting border patrol agents, funding vulnerable children through the chip program. these are not things they disagreed with. they agreed with everything in the cr. the president stayed firm, ...

Its not really about the democrats or the republicans, its about how do we move forward as the strongest government in the world and we are on day three of a shutdown. that is a big issue. rob: okay, the magic number will be 60 in the senate. we have to get to that number. theres going to be an attempt today at least procedural vote to try and get there and its going to be a deal basically on a three-week cr which is a continuing resolution that we will put a date on a daca vote and we will vote...

In this country living on pins and needles not knowing their fate and store. what is the white house message? >> i think they should storm capitol hill and protest there. thats the holdup on the discussion. democrats shut this discussion down by forcing the government shut down. by being unwilling to fund the federal government we lost four days of this process that should of been on immigration reform fighting over the cr. if they were part of the solution instead part of the problem i think we...

But shut down, c.r. spending fights that they have, looks like the new normal. so we could be doing a lot of weekends over here. >> shepard: government by chris cyst. thanks, tom. the issue of immigration is at the heart of today ideal. even if the senate passes protections for undocumented immigrants, how will the bill do in the house of the representatives? home of the freedom caucus. well go live to capitol hill. and who gets the blame for the weekend of drama? both sides of the political ais...

>> i think he is right to say this is not a good thing to have the government shutdown. its not the right way to get policy outcomes is to shut the government down. when we tried it, it didnt work well for us. so i think what youll hear from the majority leader is a firmer commitment when it seems like it will matter. right now jeff flake and lindsey graham are with the majority leader who got 52 votes. there are some other democrats would like to get to yes. if mitch were a little firmer that w...

Takes wife and children hostage says lets negotiating over the price of your house we could say were shutting down the government government not going to raise debt ceiling until you pass immigration realism governmental chaos right now arent you the legislative arsonist right now, taking the government hostage? >> chris just because a bipartisan group of democrats and republicans voted friday night including me, against the 30 day cr, doesnt mean i am an arsonist i supported -- continuing the g...

Brian: most importantly they cant budget. if this was just a continuing resolution it, doesnt set up a budget. you want to get missile defense. if you want to build more aircraft carriers, you have no idea what you are doing because you dont have that number. pass a two year budget. burn thing i agree with senator durbin on. how many crs are we going to do? we just keep doing this over and over again. steve: brian, its because congress has become the most dysfunctional branch of government. they...

>> the effects wont be as many visible as 2013 keep in mind 2013, only way i can describe it obama administration chose to wpi iz weaponize shutdown went out of way to hurt more people be more visible the baishdz in front of world war ii memorial to keep vets away you wont see that this year the national parks will be open, the trash wont get picked up -- >> if you are talking about -- furloughing 800,000 people. >> it hurts you asked what will people see if you work you there will see dramatic ...

Sarah huckabee sanders said senator schumers memory is hazy because his account of fridays meeting is false. what was the deal? >> this president is always willing to negotiate with people who come in good faith. people have to stop thinking they heard what they wanted to hear hear than what they needed to hear. steve: what was said? >> im thought going to divulge that. steve: just generally. >> i have talked to the president about it. the president has made very clear. i mean, if senator schume...